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Carlo Levi

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1902, Turin, Italy — 1975, Rome, Italy

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Italy

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Italian writer, painter and physician, an anti-Fascist whose memoir 'Christ Stopped at Eboli' (1945) drew on his internal exile in Basilicata and exposed the poverty of the rural south. Born to a Jewish family in Turin, he was Jewish and later served as an independent senator.

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